December 2008
3 posts
Icon Scraping and Empathy
Part of my ongoing education/entertainment menu has always been dedicated to consuming the biographies, interviews and biopics of people in the areas I’m fascinated with: automobiles, design, leadership, war strategy, marketing, technology and innovation. Do you do this, too? I do it because somehow I believe I’ll be able to walk away with a small piece of them. My artist and photographer...
John Delorean's Sketch for a Sedan
A few years ago I discovered some of John Delorean’s old sketches on eBay and it sent me off in a direction of JZD study and focus that—as my girlfriend Andrea can attest—has barely lost any momentum even to this day. Every nook and cranny I can find is downloaded either literally or figuratively as I try to make sense of one of the industry’s most polarizing figures. I was never in love with...
Building Trust Within Email: Nielsen’s Summary...
Not too long ago I considered email merely to be one of the communication plumbing devices of the internet. Then when I worked at a startup where so much of our business was dependent upon an audience’s response to an email list, I finally woke up and realized the beauty—and the tremendous responsibility—of the format. As a result, I now really care about email and I believe it’s still one of...